I don't like the fact that QDOLED seems to always have shiny panels. I get that it lets the colors pop more and whatever, but I'm not sitting in a dark room. It's usually well-lit, and no I don't want to change that. I enjoy the sun shining and I also enjoy some artificial lighting in the afternoon.
So it seems it's WOLED what I'm looking for, which seems to have matte/diffusing panels mostly.
Fullscreen brightness on either QDOLED or WOLED seems to be pretty meh at best though.
What I also don't like, even though this isn't exclusive to OLED monitors, is the missing continuity in resolution coming from a 27" 2560x1440 monitor, which has been a standard for many years. Most 4KUHD "gaming" displays are around 31.5" so if you'd want to get the same amount of real estate per physical inch you'd have to set scaling to 1.2-1.25x. Fractional scaling can already look bad at 1.5x, so this is a mess.
In an ideal world (or in my ideal world at least) there'd be "5K" (5120x2880) 27" panels as standard (I know they exist, but not as high refresh rate panels), so you could replace your 2560x1440 27", use non-fractional 2x scaling and have content at the exact same size as before. Larger panels could still exist, but they'd be closer to a "6K" resolution with the exact same pixel density.
It makes a lot of sense for non-gaming tasks. Text looks great and non-fractional scaling makes a big difference. Try it for yourself, there are several non-"gaming" (60 Hz) 27" 5KUHD monitors out there. And remember just because you can't notice a difference doesn't mean no one can.
And for gaming: most GPUs can't drive most games at native 4KUHD. Some form of temporal upscaling (DLSS, XeSS, FSR, TAA etc.) is usually required anyway, and whether you're upscaling to 4KUHD or 5KUHD from the same internal resolution doesn't have a big performance impact.
I get that this ad implies the (new) iPad can replace all the other stuff that got crushed, I just don't get how this can be so upsetting to people: it's an ad for a product. Don't like it, don't buy it. Apple is hardly going to destroy the market for all the stuff that got crushed.
I can disagree with something and still not be offended or upset by it. As I said, sometimes I feel like some people want to be offended/upset.
When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...
Pulling this off requires high privileges in the network, so if this is done by intruder you're probably having a Really Bad Day anyway, but might be good to know if you're connecting to untrusted networks (public wifi etc). For now, if you need to be sure, either tether to Android - since the Android stack doesn't implement...
The title is misleading in that the attack isn't against the VPN apps or even the VPN protocols, but against the networking stack of the operating system.
I also don't get much value out of the statement that "every" OS except Android is vulnerable. Do they really mean all other OSes, or just what would come to mind for most people, i.e. Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS? What about the various BSDs for example?
Pretty good overall. I had Dolphin crash on me once, and even killing and restarting the process didn't help, only a system restart fixed the issue. Not sure what that was all about, I could access files just fine with other applications.
It also has some smaller bugs/lack of polish. The keyboard layout switch overlay/hint/toast appears at the correct position only for the first time, after that it snaps to the top-left corner of one of the connected displays.
I've also had the system tray icon popups reduce their width and height to 0 more than once, requiring a change in the config file under ~/.config to correct this issue.
I'm dual booting Pop_OS and Windows 11 for now while l try things out. I went with Pop_OS for the NVIDIA drivers, since I have a NVIDIA card. Installation went smoothly, but setup is where things started to get a little weird....
You are likely using X11. X11 treats all enabled displays as one "screen" and therefore different refresh rates will have issues (as will VRR for example).
Wayland is the way to go, but the NVIDIA drivers are still buggy with Wayland. Pop!_OS currently uses a desktop environment based on an outdated version of GNOME, so it probably won't be amazing under Wayland.
I'd recommend using a distro with a recent version of KDE Plasma as it has non-experimental support for VRR and great support for Wayland. You'll also want an up-to-date kernel and the latest NVIDIA drivers. I recommend Fedora KDE Spin or openSUSE Tumbleweed. Installing NVIDIA drivers is a little bit more involved (search for "RPM Fusion NVIDIA" for Fedora), but very doable.
I personally switched to an AMD GPU because of the issues with NVIDIA, but NVIDIA support is improving so you'll probably be fine.
I get SELinux warnings related to Proton/Wine (something about "execheap"), but everything still works as it should.
I also had a problem with one of my displays not working until I turned "dim screen after xyz" off (will have to look up what that setting was titled) in KDE. That is a weird issue as it completely crashed the display, even connecting to other computers doesn't work unless I unplug and replug the power of the display.
Other than that, worked fine so far and I've been using it since the beta.
I just use uBlock Origin (without any additional scripts) and whenever it stops working I update the filter lists manually (it updates them automatically every now and then).
Earlier this month, we wrote that some of Intel's recent high-end Core i9 and Core i7 processors had been crashing and exhibiting other weird issues in some games and that Intel was investigating the cause....
From what I understood from Hardware Unboxed, running without hard power limits is essentially "supported" by Intel and motherboard manufacturers weren't compelled to stick to the "recommended" power limits.
The fact that the new "Intel Baseline" profile that was pushed to motherboards via a BIOS update is vastly inconsistent between manufacturers leads be to believe that Intel doesn't clearly state "do this and this as default".
I find it a bit cheap to put the blame solely on motherboard manufacturers here.
There are also reports of instabilities with CPUs running at supposedly safe power limits. I can't confirm this but I also wouldn't be surprised if these power limits also caused silicon degradation at an unexpectedly fast pace.
Same for me, but don't get your hopes up. Riot just fucked up the code doing the check, but let's just trust them that their permanently running kernel driver has no security flaws.
And since you won't be able to modify web pages, it will also mean the end of customization, either for looks (ie. DarkReader, Stylus), conveniance (ie. Tampermonkey) or accessibility....
OLED monitor momentum expected to continue — analysts expect 1.34 million units shipped by year end ( www.tomshardware.com )
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Germany may introduce conscription for all 18-year-olds ( www.telegraph.co.uk )
OpenSUSE Aeon Security Drama (2023 But Still Relevant) ( forums.opensuse.org )
A crushing backlash to Apple’s new iPad ad ( arstechnica.com )
Hey Apple, I have this great idea for a next spot where we burn a pile of books. Call me.
After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year ( www.billboard.com )
When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...
iFixit hails replaceable LPCAMM2 laptop memory as a 'big deal' ( www.theregister.com )
Introducing image mode for Red Hat Enterprise Linux ( www.redhat.com )
The tl;dr is: pretty much Silverblue for RHEL
Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause ( arstechnica.com )
As if the Prime Video app couldn't get any worse.
How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas ( sherwood.news )
Apple introduces M4 chip ( www.apple.com )
Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose ( arstechnica.com )
Pulling this off requires high privileges in the network, so if this is done by intruder you're probably having a Really Bad Day anyway, but might be good to know if you're connecting to untrusted networks (public wifi etc). For now, if you need to be sure, either tether to Android - since the Android stack doesn't implement...
Opinions on KDE Plasma 6
Self-hosted Jellyfin CPU or GPU for 4K HDR transcoding?
Hey everyone, I'm building a new server to run Jellyfin (with a few other services like Pi-hole) and I'm stuck on GPU or CPU transcoding....
I'm giving Linux gaming a shot, but I've run into a couple display issues ( kbin.social )
I'm dual booting Pop_OS and Windows 11 for now while l try things out. I went with Pop_OS for the NVIDIA drivers, since I have a NVIDIA card. Installation went smoothly, but setup is where things started to get a little weird....
Which file system do you recommend for Linux?
Just a simple question :...
Did Fedora 40 break something for you? ( gehirneimer.de )
I am running Fedora 39 right now and the last time I did a distro upgrade my graphics drivers were a huge PITA. Did your upgrade to 40 went smooth?
New developer ( lemmy.world )
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"Disable adblocker"-thing on YouTube is back ( fedia.io ) German
Hey everyone,...
Motherboard makers apparently to blame for high-end Intel Core i9 CPU failures | Ars Technica ( arstechnica.com )
Earlier this month, we wrote that some of Intel's recent high-end Core i9 and Core i7 processors had been crashing and exhibiting other weird issues in some games and that Intel was investigating the cause....
I'm back on that other OS for work ( lemmy.ml )
Muscle memory is causing all kinds of problems.
Vanguard on Linux ( lemmy.one )
This is League Of Legends running with wine on fedora. I thought Vanguard will only run on windows?
Nintendo submit Yuzu DMCA request to Internet Archive ( reddthat.com )
Firefox FTW! ( sopuli.xyz )
Google engineers want to introduce DRMs for web pages, making ad-blocking near-impossible in the browser ( github.com )
And since you won't be able to modify web pages, it will also mean the end of customization, either for looks (ie. DarkReader, Stylus), conveniance (ie. Tampermonkey) or accessibility....